Pedro Sanchez

Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon (29 February 1972-) was Prime Minister of Spain from 1 June 2018, succeeding Mariano Rajoy. He was the leader of the PSOE from 2017, and he took power after Rajoy was ousted in a vote of no-confidence.

Biography
Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon was born in Madrid, Spain in 1972, and he worked as an economics professor before being elected to the Madrid City Council in 2004 as a PSOE member. In 2009, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, and he served as Secretary-General of the PSOE from 2014 to 2016 and from 2017. He refused to support an alliance with the People's Party of Spain, but he backed the government in its handling of the Catalan independence crisis in October 2017, supporting the imposition of direct rule. On 1 June 2018, after the corrupt Mariano Rajoy was ousted in a vote of no-confidence, Sanchez was appointed the new Prime Minister of Spain.